Diane Mazloum (born 1980) is a

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- Lebanese writer. Her novels are set against the history or present in Lebanon.

Life and education

Diane Mazloum was born in 1980, in Paris, to Lebanese parents who fled from the country because of the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

. She grew up in Rome and studied astrophysics at

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

in Paris, then moved to Lebanon to study art and design at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

. Later, Mazloum returned to Paris, but she was in Beirut during the 2020 explosion.

Career

Mazloum debuted in 2009 with a graphic novel ''Nucleus en plein cœur de Beyrouth City''. Five years later, she published her first novel ''Beyrouth, la nuit''. Her next novel, ''L’âge d’or'', was awarded the Prix Amic by the

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and the Prix France-Liban, while ''Une piscine dans le désert'' (2020) was nominated for Prix Renaudot,

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and Prix Médicis. Her writing deals with the past and the present of Lebanon.

Works

*''Nucleus en plein cœur de Beyrouth City'', 2009 *''Beyrouth, la nuit'', 2014 *''L'âge d'or'', 2018 *''Une piscine dans le désert'', 2020 *''Le musée national'', 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazloum, Diane 1980 births Living people 21st-century French women writers 21st-century Lebanese women writers Lebanese women novelists Lebanese novelists 21st-century French novelists Writers from Paris